[SunRescue] Rant on... now on first WP ditties...

[Roger Walkup]

Mike Hebel wrote:

> > >Well, speaking for myself I hadn't even heard of UNIX at that
> > >point.  I was
> > >a (bad) programmer (COBOL and dBase!) who had been drafted onto the brand
> > >new team installing something called 'Lans' on 'personal
> > >computers'.  That's
> > >the military for ya.  Later that year the Intel guys started playing with
> > >something called 'Sun' and SunOS (this was '92 or '93) and I
> > >probably coulda
> > >gotten into that but  I just *knew* the future was Banyan Vines.  Sigh.
>
> LOL! Yeah, like I "knew" the future was Lantastic!
> *dons flame retardant underwear*
> Unix was too "geeky" for us to deal with.
> *runs like hell*
>
> ;-)
>
> Mike Hebel
>
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Humm, back in the mid 80s to early 90s I was using WordPerfect on TEMPEST
approved Wang machines to hammer out visual TEMPEST inspection reports of USN
ships.
Roger